I did not want to quarrel with her.

You see, she fascinated me, she seemed to act as a stimulant, to set me tingling somehow--and to baffle me....

And there was truth in what she said.

I had let myself in for it, and I didn't want to lose Callan's job by telling him I had made a fool of him.
"I don't care about anything else," I said.

She smiled..